Tandem Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Tandem
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tandem over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 329 462
Rank change year-on-year +31 +133 +152
Contract jobs citing Tandem 6 16 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.10% 0.058%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.36% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 10
10th Percentile - £413 £395
25th Percentile - £463 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -34.91% -3.08% +12.10%
75th Percentile - £619 £634
90th Percentile - £625 £668
UK median daily rate £648 £563 £600
% change year-on-year +15.11% -6.25% +6.67%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Tandem falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Tandem
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Tandem as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Tandem trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Tandem
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Tandem.

Tandem daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Tandem
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Big Data
1 4 (66.67%) Data Mining
2 2 (33.33%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Big Data Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) BASE24 Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Ray
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (16.67%) APACS
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) EMV
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Deep Learning
1 4 (66.67%) Low Latency
1 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 4 (66.67%) Parallel Computing
1 4 (66.67%) Pattern Recognition
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Debt
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C++
2 5 (83.33%) C
3 4 (66.67%) Java
3 4 (66.67%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
4 2 (33.33%) COBOL
5 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 8583
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) HP